The Patient in the Family
Published on 28. April 1995
Book
Hardback
224 pages
978-0-415-91128-3 (ISBN)
Description
The Patient in the Family diagnoses the ways in which the worlds of home and hospital misunderstand each other. The authors explore how medicine, through its new reproductive technologies, is altering the stucture of families, how families can participate more fully in medical decision-making, and how to understand the impact on families of medical advances to extend life but not vitality.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
590 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-415-91128-3 (9780415911283)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
1. A Rivalry of Care; 2. Why Families Matter; 3. An Ethics for Families; 4. Medical Decisionmaking; 5. When I'm Sixty-Four; 6. When Medicine Makes Babies; 7. With Medicine and Justice for All; 8. Mecicine, Families, and Other Sources of Identity.